Knebworth
Knebworth is a town and also civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, right away south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers a location between the towns of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Walden and Langley, and incorporates the village of Knebworth, the small town of Old Knebworth and Knebworth House. There is proof of people staying in the location as far back as Neolithic times and also it is discussed in the Domesday Book of 1086 where it is referred to as Chenepeworde (the farm coming from the Dane, Cnebba) with a population of 150. The initial village, currently called Old Knebworth, established around Knebworth House. Development of the newer Knebworth village started in the late 19th century centred a mile to the eastern of Old Knebworth on the brand-new railway station and also the Great North Roadway (consequently the A1, and also currently the B197 considering that the opening of the A1(M) freeway in 1962). At the turn of the century the architect Edwin Lutyens developed Homewood, southeast of Old Knebworth, as a dower residence for Edith Bulwer-Lytton. Her daughter, the suffragette Constance Lytton also lived there, until just before her fatality in 1923. Knebworth has, given that 1974, been famously associated with countless significant outdoors rock and pop performances at Knebworth House, consisting of Queen's last live efficiency which happened on 9 August 1986 and attracted a presence estimated at 125,000, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Oasis playing to a quarter of a million people for 2 nights in 1996 and also even more lately Robbie Williams, who for 3 nights in August 2003 executed to the largest groups ever before constructed for a single entertainer. Statistics from UK Census 2011: All Homeowners: 5,247.